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Biden’s continuing stubborn performance in the face of failure, brings back memories of a basic business tenet learned many, many years ago. Listening to my heartfelt presentation favoring a financing applicant whose credit condition was marginal or below, our president at Leasco Capital Equipment Corporation, Mike Morrell, said: “Mike, one of the worst mistakes one can make in finance is to believe their own BS.”

Today, where data distribution is virtually instantaneous from a wide variety of sources, the POTUS continues to present information that is completely erroneous. Whatever the issue, inflation, illegal immigration, street crime, prices of oil and gasoline, fentanyl deaths or Covid mismanagement, the blame is placed somewhere else while facts and evidence indicate otherwise. Most remarkable is that although these problems most certainly can be fixed, not only does the POTUS refuse to do it, he continues to “sell” falsities and excuses for purely political purposes.

Just yesterday, the POTUS claimed that gasoline costs so much at the pump because of oil company executives gouging prices, taking advantage of current worldwide conditions. Yet, his very first act in office was to cancel the Keystone pipeline, shut off access to oil in the Dakotas and begin limitation on Federal land leases. Simply releasing oil restrictions would begin reversing inflation almost immediately.

Similarly, rather than support stringent border restrictions that greatly reduced illegal immigration under his predecessor, Trump, Biden chooses instead to send his border czar, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, to fabricate when appearing before Congress. As reported by Andrew R. Arthur @cis.org on May 9, 2022 “Mayorkas offered his own take on the congressional mandate that he gain “operational control” of the Southwest border — and it doesn’t match Congress’s take. Rather, in a shift from every prior administration, the current one has no intention — or policy — to deter illegal migrants."

“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), likely channeling the frustration of many in his conference, ended his first round of questioning stating, “The time has come for you to resign.” In that vein, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) referred to the situation at the border as an “extraordinary failure” and told Mayorkas in frustration: “You’ve got to secure the border.”

“In response to questions from Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) about DHS’s mandate to detain all illegal migrants apprehended at the border, Mayorkas simply told Lankford without elucidation, “We have misused detention for many years” — logically including when he was the DHS Deputy Secretary.

“Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) continued this theme, explaining that he had spoken to Border Patrol agents who “don’t believe you are doing anything to make the border secure and I don’t think that you are doing anything to make the border secure.”

Doubling down, Scott asserted that those agents:

[D]on’t believe that you are doing anything, they believe that this is the first administration that has sat there and done nothing to secure the border. The actions you have taken since you took this job — you promised me you would enforce the law. I don’t think there is any question that you’re not enforcing the law, and I think that you have utterly failed in your duty to the American public, and I don’t think there is any question what you’ve done. I am just shocked when you see this, you talk to families who have lost their kid to these drugs and it’s just skyrocketed since you’ve been in office.

“I don’t get why you can sit here and you can go on television, you can come here and claim this border is secure and you’re enforcing the laws.”

 "Scott then turned to the border numbers:

"Tell me how it’s secure when you have two million illegal border crossings last year and more than half of those individuals were allowed to stay? Think about the numbers for a second; a little over 300 million people in America, so about one in every three hundred people in this country today came here illegally since Joe Biden took office.”

In conclusion, “HSGAC ranking member, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), revealed that Border Patrol had told him that it would “lose all operational control” of the Southwest border once CDC orders directing the expulsion of illegal migrants, issued under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, end (currently scheduled to occur on May 23).”

Reporter Arthur goes on: “Mayorkas asserted that the opioid overdose death rate has been increasing “for too many years”, and then interestingly contended: “Individuals are not allowed to stay in the United States unless their claims for relief are adjudicated favorably by an immigration judge. They are in immigration enforcement proceedings.”

“I say “interestingly” because the secretary is ostensibly oblivious to the fact that the administration has been pushing a plan to give his asylum officers at USCIS — not immigration judges — jurisdiction over protection claims made by illegal migrants apprehended at the Southwest border for more than a year.

“DHS and DOJ, in fact, published a proposal to do just that back in August.”

On another subject, South Dakota Senator John Thune writes: “American communities are less safe today than they were a year ago. Crime rates have surged since “defund the police” became a rallying cry. It’s no coincidence that cities that have slashed their police budgets have seen huge increases in violence. As of the end of May, Portland, Oregon, was on track to exceed 1,000 shootings for this year. In the first 14 weeks of 2021, New York City shootings were up 81 percent. In Oakland, California, carjackings are up almost 88 percent. Unfortunately, these are just a few examples. 

“The crime surge is real, and it is frightening. Statistics and percentages can seem abstract, but there are people behind every one of those crimes. People whose lives have been cut short or ravaged by violence. People whose sense of safety has been destroyed.

“This won’t be a surprise to most South Dakotans, who overwhelmingly support our law enforcement officers, but defunding the police is a terrible idea. Some of the cities that cut their own police funding are even recognizing the mistake they’ve made and seeking to restore funding they cut. Unfortunately, the problem won’t necessarily be fixed that easily. Because the “defund the police” movement has not just resulted in smaller police budgets, it has also resulted in lower police morale, leading to a wave of police retirements and resignations.”

So, issue by issue, result by result, statistical performance establishes evidence that objectives of the hard-core left simply do not work for the good of the overwhelming majority of Americans. And if Biden continues to choose attempting to overcome proven performance with rhetoric demeaning Trump’s “MAGA” crowd as “the most extreme political organization” in “recent American history,” 74,222,958 voters will more than likely be pleased to be in that group of radicals. Particularly if filling their car costs half as much as it does now while food and rent become affordable again.

That’s it for today folks.

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